Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — CIRCUS ACT FATAL TO YOUTH [ARTICLE]

CIRCUS ACT FATAL TO YOUTH

Youth Tries to Perform an Acrobatic Feat, but Strangles to Death. New York, Aug. 26. —While trying to perform an acrobatic feat by means of a belt which he had attached to an iron ring on the , cellar door at his home, Charles Liebe. sixteen years old, was strangled to death. His mother found the lifeless body of her son with the belt wound tightly around his neck.